In 1999 Pontiac introduced the world to the Aztec crossover. The release was greeted with the kind of reaction one might have if they found out that their first cousin had just announced that they were in training to become a “Methamphetamine Sommelier”.

It is a fact that a certain section of the population enjoys old cars. They spend most of their free time, and some of the time they should be working on other things, thinking about, working on, and driving around in old cars. Old cars are noisy, fussy, inefficient, and, if we are honest with ourselves, dangerous.

Newgarden’s drama as seen through the eyes of IndyCar gatekeepers

Vinmotive’s efforts to celebrate Earth Day 2024, started an entire week early. Instead of hitting the treadmill, I hit a local walking trail at a state park. The trip did not disappoint. To my surprise I found two early touring cars rotting in one of Tenessee’s State Parks. Both are in Rock Island State Park on the Collins River Nature Trail.

For the 107th time drivers, mechanics, and engineers will enter the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and, in an effort to be the best driver, with the best-maintained car, combined with the best racing strategy, walk back out of the speedway as legends. While it is true that IndyCar races a multiple-race schedule every year, none of those races compare to the prestigious Indy 500.

A car company with many different hyphenated names!

The only thing that really matters in the car world…

Choosing the correct collector car insurance

How Street Rods filled the horsepower void.

One of the things I find most interesting about the kinds of automobiles we feature here is the number of companies looking to make electric cars.

By 1979, when President Carter delivered his infamous Crisis of Confidence Speech, automotive manufactures were a hollowed out shell of what they had been in 1969.

The old adage goes that once there was a town with 2 cars, the first race happened.

There's an old saying in the car business that goes something like this: "You can sell an old man a young man's car, but you'll never sell a young man an old mans car."

In an earlier post I made the claim that the automobile changed the very nature of travel changing it from an exercise in communal discovery with implications for the world at large to, well, a meaningless trip and I stand by that statement.

Car shows are a tradition that has been carried on for over 100 years, so get out and enjoy one today.

In the early days of automotive history a lot of questions were unsettled. Questions like which engine technology is the best had not been decided.

When I was 17 my daily driver was a 1953 Ford F100 pickup truck. It was a very nice truck, but had two problems, at least in my 17 year old mind.

Six years is how long the much publicized social media platform DriveTribe lasted in the automotive world. Despite a startup capitalization of over $12 million dollars, 10 million active daily users and 140 million monthly users the people in charge of the website could not keep it going.

When will the axe fall on the automotive world as we know it? Abolishing the internal combustion engine and requiring people to purchase fully autonomous, electric cars will not happen in one instance. I

In 2019 the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee started a concourse style automotive event. This years festival was held on October the 14th to the 16th.